Chapter 116: First class
Her first class was a basic introduction one. The ten thousand students within her specific Class One division had been further divided into ten separate groups with one thousand students each.
Currently they were randomly assigned to these initial divisions just to get the administration processes started.
But this casual arrangement would completely change after the month end trials.
Once those high stakes trials concluded, the students would be strictly grouped based on their performance as Elite, Good, Average, and Trash.
Their standard treatment and monthly distribution of system resources would also change drastically along with their new tier ranking.
The Elites would receive rare cultivation drops and hundreds of extra coins, while the ones thrown into the Trash tier would barely get enough to stay alive.
Ayla rolled her jelly body directly toward her neatly folded uniform, her blue fluid shifting automatically to wrap around the material as it adjusted to fit her perfectly round shape.
The special fabric possessed a built-in system enchantment that allowed the uniform to clean itself without using water, so she never had to worry about her physical body becoming dirty or sticky while she walked through the academy sectors.
Not that Ayla ever truly cared about basic human hygiene or personal cleanliness.
She still remembered vividly how Kenji had almost fainted from absolute disgust during the Spire Event when she finally returned to his side after a whole year of separation without taking a single bath.
He had looked at her like she was a biological biohazard, and it was only because of his intense physical revulsion that Ayla had started to regularly take baths that she hated.
Ayla decided to explore the layout of her new private room before the schedule timer started. It was actually a large suite that contained two main rooms.
There was a wide open hall, a clean dining area, and a large stone balcony which opened up to a beautiful view of a massive waterfall cascading down from a floating island in the sky.
One of the rooms was her personal sleeping space which featured a massive bed with soft white sheets and an attached luxury bathroom.
The other room was a specialized training area equipped with heavy security walls.
The thick alloy surfaces were reinforced with multiple layers of space compression arrays and shock absorbing system runes, designed specifically to ensure that even if a Ace ranked Crusader unleashed their full destructive mana inside the room, the force would be completely contained without cracking the foundation of the base building.
It was the perfect private cage for a monster to test its forms.
Ayla rolled onto the center of the large bed, letting her slime form flatten out like a pancake against the soft pillows, and she quickly went to sleep without a single care in the world.
The next day arrived exactly on time. Ayla woke up feeling perfectly refreshed and immediately prepared to go to her introductory class by following the internal navigation map provided by the holographic plate.
The sleek metallic plate possessed a very convenient secondary function, shifting its physical form smoothly into a tiny, transparent contact lens.
The system lens fixed itself perfectly onto the surface of her right eye, projecting the glowing green navigation arrows directly into her field of vision so she didn’t have to carry a heavy device around in her hands.
Moving in her foundational blue slime form, Ayla hopped and rolled out of the residential sector, navigating the grand stone bridges connecting the floating islands until she reached the massive alloy doors of her designated classroom.
The rowdy, incredibly noisy classroom instantly turned completely silent the exact moment her small blue body rolled into the room.
The wide lecture hall was built like an amphitheater, with hundreds of high-tier recruits from the Infinite Races sitting in curved rows of desks.
They had been in the middle of a loud shouting match, showing off their heavy elemental mana and boasting about their noble bloodlines.
But when the doors slid open and a tiny, translucent ball of blue jelly wobbled down the main aisle, every single conversation came to a dead stop.
"Wait a second," a humanoid student with dark purple skin and two extra pairs of arms muttered, leaning over his desk to get a closer look.
"Is that the direct recruit from the Nexus? The legendary fourth entry token was given to a ordinary monster?"
"This is an absolute insult to our status," a proud warrior from a high-tier bird race sneered loudly, his golden feathers bristling with absolute arrogance as he looked down from the top row.
"We had to fight through brutal trials and secure royal slots to stand inside this hall, yet a brainless puddle of liquid gets to sit in the same class as us. Hey, little jelly, did you get lost on your way to the academy cafeteria kitchen?"
A low ripple of cruel laughter echoed across the desks as several students nodded their heads in agreement.
Ayla stopped rolling right in the center of the front row. She didn’t feel a single thread of embarrassment or anger from their heavy mocking.
Instead, her golden eyes flared with a deep, hidden excitement beneath her fluid surface.
Her primitive monster brain stems were practically celebrating because these foolish ingredients were actively giving her the perfect excuses to initiate a public harvest.
She turned her jelly body slightly toward the golden feathered bird warrior, her multi-layered voice projecting clearly through the room.
"You talk very loudly for a bird. Your brain looks large enough to be a good snack. Do you want to go to the combat arena right now so I can eat you?"
The entire classroom gasped in unison, completely shocked by the small slime’s incredibly blunt and aggressive response.
The bird warrior’s face turned completely red with rage, his golden mana exploding outward as he slammed his feathered fists onto the desk, cracking the alloy surface.
"You wretched piece of trash! You dare to threaten a noble heir of the Garuda line? I will personally roast your fluid into vapor before the instructor even arrives!"
"Good. Let’s fight," Ayla replied instantly, her small blue body letting out a very happy, tail-wagging ripple on the floorboards.
She was already calculating how many Ascendant Coins she could wager on the match and how many new flight traits she could harvest from his skull.
But right at that exact moment of high tension, a massive, freezing shadow suddenly expanded from the doorway behind her, completely swallowing the light in the room.
Ayla’s internal fluid violently jolted as she froze in absolute shock. Her primitive survival instincts violently screamed inside her core because she had never sensed this terrifying presence reaching her position.
For an entity to completely bypass her senses and stand right behind her shoulder without triggering a single alarm line was impossible within her current parameters.
She slowly turned her round body around to look upward.
Standing directly behind her was an incredibly tall, elegant female elf.
She was wearing a long, midnight black military uniform that matched the exact homeroom teacher appearance displayed on her holographic schedule plate.
Her skin was pale like marble, and her long, dark green hair fell perfectly straight down her back.
But the most terrifying feature was her eyes, which were completely devoid of pupils, glowing with a sharp, cold silver light that radiated a raw power entirely bypassing the standard Crown rank.
The female elf looked down at the tiny blue slime with a flat, unreadable expression, her voice dropping like a heavy block of ice into the silent room.
"The lecture has officially begun," the teacher stated calmly, her silver gaze scanning the frozen students.
"Anyone who speaks another word about private arena duels during my presentation will be immediately smacked to paste by me. I dare you to try..."
